Under Associated Humber Lines management from 1935.
Ashore and badly damaged between Peterhead and
Aberdeen March-July 1941 en route for conversion to a Rescue Ship,
finally converted on the Clyde
and made her first Atlantic crossing in May 1942. She made 14 voyages to Halifax or Gibraltar and rescued 85 seamen, also gave medical aid
to many more. Released in June 1945 and resumed her service from Hull in March 1946.
Renamed MELROSE ABBEY II in 1958 in order to
release her name for a new motor-ship, she was sold in 1959 to Greek
owners as KRITI and served them until broken up around 1980.